Ok Thanks !! Saurabh Agarwal
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Eric Sammer <[email protected]> wrote: > You can, but you'll lose all of the features and functionality such as > data locality, replication, and so on. Things get tricky if you don't > use HDFS. It's worth reading some of the docs at > http://hadoop.apache.org and the map reduce paper prior to deviating > from the common case. The Hadoop - the Definitive Guide book (Tom > White, O'Reilly) is an excellent reference as well. > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Saurabh Agarwal <[email protected]> > wrote: > > thanks eric > > also can i use bypass hdfs as a datastore and instead use ext3 > > Saurabh Agarwal > > > > > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Eric Sammer <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> No. HDFS always stores data on a OS file system (e.g. ext3 on Linux). > >> > >> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Saurabh Agarwal <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > Hii > >> > Can HDFS be give path of raw device, say can I set dfs.data.dir to > >> > /dev/sda3 > >> > or something like that > >> > > >> > > >> > Thanks and regards > >> > Saurabh Agarwal > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Eric Sammer > >> phone: +1-917-287-2675 > >> twitter: esammer > >> data: www.cloudera.com > > > > > > > > -- > Eric Sammer > phone: +1-917-287-2675 > twitter: esammer > data: www.cloudera.com >
